X Factor: The Lost Tapes – When Simon Cowell Met Kraftwerk

Sweat! Passion! Vibrato! David Stubbs unearths Simon Cowell's lost tapes of unsuccessful auditions from Public Enemy, Patti Smith, Kraftwerk, Mark E Smith and PJ Harvey

Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral

At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes

Recombination Therapy: An Interview With Larry Gus

The richly textured pop of Larry Gus' latest album Years Not Living, released through DFA, emerges from a process of sound recombination inspired equally by literature and mathematics. He speaks to Ned Raggett about Borges, Ballard and a love of density in sound

Common People: Girl Identified?

Is Danae Stratou, artist and wife of the Greek finance minister, the subject of Pulp's song?

Kate Bush Reveals Plans to Start Working on New Music

She's also shared a new animated short film that she wrote and directed

Dekmantel Reveals 2019 Line-Up

Sunn O))), Pharaoh Sanders Quartet and more to play this year's edition of Dekmantel festival

Something Like A Question Mark: Rockfort Interviews Colder

David McKenna talks to Marc Nguyen Tan about the return of Colder after ten years’ absence, the social value of work and the power of hidden meanings

Barney Greenway of Napalm Death Raises The Horns To Soft Rock

Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway tells Toby Cook about the pleasures of soft rock, why it won’t be playing at his funeral and what pisses him off about the genre's modern pretenders

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This January

Nkisi to Sharon Van Etten, Fat White Family to Rian Treanor, Comet Is Coming to Deep Tan: some of the finest and juiciest new releases from the past month. It’s almost enough to make you forget about BREXIT

Why A Heart Attack Must Not Arrest The Cardiacs

With friends like Napalm Death, Israel and Eastender’s Phil Mitchell, who really cares what your enemies think of you. Graham Bendel explores the appeal of a band that many love to hate.

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Members of Wire and Coil create a new and beautiful beast with this deliriously powerful debut.

Bandcamp Fully Launches Live Stream Service For Artists

It was first trialled in September with the help of Matmos, Sarah Davachi and Mary Lattimore

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The Broken Man

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Traditional Music of Notional Species vol.II

“Everything Was In The Moment”: An Interview With Manuel Göttsching

As he prepares to take the stage at the Barbican for Convergence Festival, performing a special version of E2–E4 plus material from the Ash Ra Tempel albums Schwingungen and 7Up, Manuel Göttsching talks to Bobby Barry about free music, minimalism, and being the loudest band in West Berlin

Campaign Launched To Support Record Shops During Pandemic

The initiative will highlight various independent shops around the UK